General Magic's initial public offering (IPO) was very
successful. They raised the offering to 5.5M shares at $14
(rather than 4M at $13). The opening trade was $31 1/2,
then dropped just a bit. John Curran ,
MAGICCAP Digest, 2/11/95. Bill Park.] (The company now has
R&D funding for several years, even if it never sells a product.
That will make it tough for competitors in electronic commerce
systems.)

The UNH Cooperative Distributed Problem Solving (CDPS)
research group is on WWW as .
Their focus is coordination and cooperation between intelligent
agents, primarily for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs).
[Roy M. Turner (rmt@cs.unh.edu), 2/1/95.]

John McCarthy is proposing the computer arcade game Lemmings
as a new "drosophila" for AI. The player must get as many
lemmings as possible to a goal location, possibly sacrificing
some to help the others. He makes some of them climbers,
bridge builders, diggers, etc. in a world obeying partially
unknown "lemming physics." [Michelle Perrie , siglunch, 2/7/95.] (Definitely a challenge
for AI, and a lot of fun, but is it a dead-end career path for
students? Have we yet developed any applications for chess-
playing technology? What have we learned from poker or bridge?
What jobs have been created?)